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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the morning's rising sun like after Tyler speaks to Jason?
(a) The normal, non-Spin sun.
(b) A dark disc.
(c) The one when Spin was around the Earth.
(d) A huge orange ball.

2. Why does Simon say Tyler cannot come for Diane?
(a) He refuses to give a reason.
(b) Because Diane is close to death.
(c) Because Simon hates Tyler.
(d) Because Diane wants to die without medical help.

3. What does Tyler tell Ina about the Martians?
(a) That they are human also.
(b) That they are genetically very different from humans.
(c) That they are a mixed race of human and Trator.
(d) That they are genetically close to human, but not human.

4. What makes Tyler get nauseous as he views Diane's wounds?
(a) He is seasick already.
(b) Tyler's Fourth Age State.
(c) His glasses are broken and he's seeing double.
(d) He has a migraine headache.

5. How does Tyler get out of his prison?
(a) He assists in the birth of the red calf.
(b) He manages to break a window and climb out.
(c) He does not.
(d) He shoots his captor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is launched from an American site?

2. What does Tyler do?

3. To what is the Martian drug intended to bring people?

4. What do they hope the replicators will eventually do?

5. Where does Tyler go after taking Wu to the Grand Canyon?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do Diane and Tyler go at the end of the book? What was the ultimate purpose of the Spin membrane?

2. What is in the envelope Tyler received after from Jason after he died? Why did Jason leave him the envelope?

3. What does Jason report to Tyler about the replicators a few years after they were launched?

4. What does Simon say about his conflict between Diane and his beliefs?

5. As Tyler, Diane and others are waiting to leave what happens?

6. Why is Jason dying?

7. What does Wun tell Tyler about a possible cure for Jason?

8. What happens in the summer with the sky and why does Simon call Tyler? How does Tyler respond?

9. What does Jason tell Tyler about the Martian ambassador, conditions on Mars and why he was sent?

10. What happens when Tyler rides along with Wun in a convoy that takes them to Perihelion?

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